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 Rosalie Sanz was a teenager in 1969 when she looked out the window of her family's San Diego home on a dark November night and saw two men in suits. She remembers her mother listening quietly to the detectives telling her that her 23-year-old daughter, Mary Scott, had been murdered."It was very brief," Sanz said. "They closed the door, and my mom came and told me that my sister had been killed."The case went cold for half a century.But on Tuesday, the San Diego Police Department announced that with the help of forensic genealogy, a suspect had been identified. On Oct. 24, John Jeffrey Sipos, 75, was arrested in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, in the murder of Scott, the police said. Sipos is being held in the Lehigh County Detention Center awaiting extradition to San Diego, they said.Charges will be filed this week in the "cold case murder," Tanya Sierra, a spokeswoman for the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, said in an email.The case is one of the latest to benefit from advances in DNA and genetic genealogy, which have given new momentum to dormant murder files in the United States, helping investigators track down suspects and families find justice.The first high-profile case to be cracked with genetic genealogy, which relies on identifying DNA collected at a crime scene by searching for the perpetrator's relatives in genealogy databases, was that of Joseph James DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer, who was arrested in Sacramento, California, in 2018.DeAngelo, who pleaded guilty to a series of
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 Twenty-four years after bewitching audiences with its quartet of magical "weirdos," The Craft returns with Legacy, which introduces a charming new group that hopes to become—pardon the pun—"coven goals." Written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, the film initially follows in its predecessors footsteps, with loner new…
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 "Judge Judy" may be leaving the daytime syndication airwaves after this season, but Judy Sheindlin isn't ready to hang up her robe quite yet.Sheindlin has partnered with Amazon Studios for a new courtroom show she will host that will air on IMDb TV, Amazon's free streaming platform. When Sheindlin announced the end of her longrunning "Judge Judy," she teased she was already working on a follow-up series, "Judy Justice" and would be looking for a streaming distributor.The series, which is now untitled, "will feature no-nonsense, expeditious Judge Sheindlin's signature adjudication style with a new array of cases, litigants and judgments," according to Amazon's description.Also Read: Who Is Primed to Replace 'Judge Judy' on the Syndication Throne?"I'm over the moon to be in business with Amazon Studios and continuing this incredible journey with them on a new platform is so exciting," said Sheindlin. "I used to yell at my husband, Jerry, for all the packages he had ordered from Amazon every day. I have enough mouthwash in the cabinets to keep the entire planet's breath fresh until the next millennium. The doorbell never stops ringing. The dogs don't even bark at the delivery people anymore. After I signed this deal, I apologized to Jerry. Who would have thought that the Sheindlin's and Amazon would be mishpachah?"Sheindlin has hosted "Judge Judy" since 1996, netting a mammoth $47 million salary that put her at the top of Forbes' list of highest-paid TV hosts in 2018. For the last 11 years, "Judge Judy" has led
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 Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:
Character Reprisal of the Day:
While hosting Saturday Night Live, James McAvoy reprised his role as Mr. Tumnus from the Chronicles of Narnia movies for a sketch about the character's fandom:
Mashup of the Day:
In anticipation of the new movie Velvet Buzzsaw, Funny or Die mashed its trailer up with scenes from Ghostbusters 2:
Oscar Montage of the Day:
Here's a montage showcasing the Oscar-nominated visual effects in Christopher Robin, Avengers: Infinity War, First Man, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Ready Player One:
Movie Comparison of the Day:
Speaking of Oscar nominees, here's another side-by-side comparison between the Live Aid...
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